On 06.10.2015 06:40, David Wright wrote:
However, I just wanted to observe two things about the OP's original: the words are much smaller, and the first three bars look as though they are using proportional spacing.
No, they don’t. Proportional spacing is a very specific means for complicated situations in mostly ‘modern’ music, and what the example shows is just unnecessary loose spacing, less proficient by far than LilyPond’s solution.
One of the things that I've noticed about LP is that by default the lyrics are scaled up in size relative to the music, compared with many publishers' scores, which can lead to a more irregular note spacing. This isn't a criticism: it's easily "correctable" but I much prefer it anyway because of my eyesight.
And legibility is the exact reason why LilyPond’s lyrics are larger than commonly used nowadays.
Mind you, I'm not sure why a beginner's piano book has lyrics at all, particularly placing them between the staves.
In order to make the connection to a tune the child knows, or to teach the actual song to sing it as well; also, thinking text is a good means to achieve more musical playing.
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